Andrew Mowbray, received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He recently had a solo exhibition titled Tempest Prognosticator at Gallery Diet in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited extensively nationally and also internationally and often explores the context of the gallery and contemporary notions and paradigms of masculinity. He has received grants from The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The LEF Foundation and the Artists Resource Trust. Andrew is a Visiting Lecturer at Wellesley College and lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. www.andrewmowbray.com

MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
Adel Abdessemed: Situation And Practice
October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009

ICA
Street Level
Through October 19, 2008

Street Level presents recent work by three promising artists whose works draw directly from street culture: Mark Bradford (Los Angeles), William Cordova (Lima, Miami, New York) and Robin Rhode (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Berlin). Using metropolitan grids, billboards, boom boxes, and graffiti as open-ended metaphors, their works both celebrate and critique how cultural territory is defined and transformed in urban environments.

Bradford is best known for large-scale collages of old posters gathered from the streets of South Central Los Angeles that he tears, bleaches, sands and reconfigures as abstractions of the city landscape. Cordova's mixed-media drawings and installations of discarded books, stereo speakers, car tires, and record albums use such images and forms to allude both to his Peruvian heritage and modern urban subcultures. Inspired by graffiti, film, sports and hip-hop, Robin Rhode creates performances that involve the buildup and erasure of drawings in public spaces. He performs with his drawings as if they were three-dimensional props and documents them with digital photography and stop-time animation. While the materials, vernacular, and sites of their practices are distinct, they share a poetic power to both ground and elevate our sense of what shapes street life today.

Street Level was originally organized by Trevor Schoonmaker for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition presented in Boston features 19 works from 2001 and 2008, including large-scale canvases, intimate works on paper, photography, video, and a new sculptural installation by Cordova commissioned by the ICA.

MASS ART
The Speaker Project
September 22 through November 22

Chicago-based artist Juan Angel Chavez will create a multi-directional, multi-layered sound experience at MassArt this fall. Comprised of found material we see everyday-such as old billboard signs, wood panel siding and traffic cones-part sculpture, part speaker, the Speaker Project will turn the gallery into an interactive sound studio. Special performances will take place during the run of the exhibition.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Rachel Whiteread
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - Sunday, January 25, 2009

Widely known in contemporary art circles for her public monuments, including Water Tower (1998) in New York (now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art) and Holocaust Memorial (1995/2000) in Vienna, Rachel Whiteread considers the scale and structure of familiar forms through the overlooked spaces essential to their identity. Throughout her twenty-five year career, Whiteread has created a critical body of work that addresses our presence, relationships, and the power of the past. Rich with meaning, her sculpture is also conceptually rigorous and formally evolves from the tenets of minimalism.

This exhibition features the US premiere of her most recent work, Place (Village) (2006-08) and traces the position of domestic objects through sculptures and drawings. Over several years, Whiteread has collected handmade English dollhouses and configured them into a sprawling "community" filled with haunting memories and melancholy. Place (Village), encompassing the left side of the Foster Gallery, appears as if it was discovered at night. In contrast to this installation are individual sculptures from an early floor piece cast in rubber as well as more recent "stacks" cast from the interior of tattered boxes.

ROSE MUSEUM @ BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Project for a New American Century
September 26-December 14

“Project for a New American Century” is the title of an 80-foot long work on paper by artist Dominic McGill, which will be featured in this exhibition of new works from the Rose collection. McGill’s monumental artwork is a panoply of images, texts, slogans and multiple narratives that addresses America’s complex history and current status as an economically wounded and threatened world power. Presented on the eve of America’s next presidential elections, McGill’s work addresses issues crucial to us all.

In the past three years, the Rose has been given or was able to purchase more than 60 works of art that reflect the most important trends in contemporary art. “Project for a New American Century” will include paintings, photographs and works on paper from dozens of artists, including Matthew Antezzo, Roy Arden, Joanne Greenbaum, David Reed, Beat Streuli, Jim Hyde and Jessica Stockholder. The exhibition is curated by guest curator Randi Hopkins.

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COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
Wall Stories: Children's Wallpapers and Books
On view: October 3, 2008–April 5, 2009

This exhibition will explore the relationship between wallpapers and books created for children through works from the permanent collection and the National Design Library. From their beginning in the 1870s, children's wallpapers have been strongly influenced by literature and popular culture. Works on view will include papers illustrated with nursery rhymes and designs inspired by works of fiction and adventure, such as Peter Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Cinderella. The exhibition also will trace the evolution of children's books from instructional to fictional and include developments such as movable and pop-up books, which added an interactive element to children's reading.

NEW MUSEUM
Museum as Hub: Six Degrees
September 25-January 11, 2009

In "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees" artists use the real estate of the New Museum as organizing principle, departure point, vista, and classroom to imagine the changing relevance of the Museum and its environs. Expanding the concept of an exhibition, "Six Degrees" refers to the angle of the Bowery off New York City’s grid and begins with Night School, a monthly seminar series organized by Anton Vidokle that features artists, writers, and curators in conversation with the public over the course of the year. Works by Dave McKenzie, My Barbarian (Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines, and Alexandro Segade), Martha Rosler, Lisa Sigal, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and Anton Vidokle continue to occupy and engage the neighborhood by employing nearby buildings as canvas, local artists as collaborators, and New Museum territory as a meeting place, recital hall, and laboratory.

Organized by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.

A partnership of five international arts organizations, Museum as Hub is a new model for curatorial practice and institutional collaboration established to enhance our understanding of contemporary art. Both a network of relationships and an actual physical site located in the New Museum Education Center, Museum as Hub is conceived as a flexible, social space designed to engage audiences through multimedia workstations, exhibition areas, screenings, symposia, and events. Initiated by the New Museum in 2006, the partnership includes Insa Art Space (Seoul, South Korea); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, Mexico); Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art (Cairo, Egypt); and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).

BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Gilbert & George Retrospective
October 3, 2008–January 11, 2009

The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s.

Gilbert and George met in 1967 while students at St. Martin’s Art School in London. They began to create art together, developing a uniquely recognizable style both in their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures. Over more than forty years, they developed a new format that created large-scale pictures, which are visually and emotionally powerful, through a unique creative process. Most of their pictures are created in groups and made especially for the space in which they are first exhibited.

The artists’ art, which is sometimes seen as subversive, controversial, and provocative, considers the entire cosmology of human experience and explores such themes as faith and religion, sexuality, race and identity, urban life, terrorism, superstition, AIDS-related loss, aging, and death. Included in the exhibition are selections from the Ginkgo Pictures, which was part of the exhibition that represented the United Kingdom at the 2005 Venice Biennale; examples from the 1974 Cherry Blossom Pictures: Finding God, 1982, a huge, complex composition featuring images of the artists, several young men, and a cross; and more recent works, among them two pictures from the Six Bomb Pictures, created for the inaugural presentation of the exhibition at Tate Modern. The Six Bomb Pictures was intended by the artists to be seen as modern townscapes reflecting the daily exposure in urban life to bomb threats and terror raids.

MOMA- Always a Good Bet! As well as, the Whitney Museum of Art...